The corpus record

θάλασσα

thalassa · ἡ

sea, sea, salt lake

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Where it lives

Jonas 12 · 114.07/10k
Critias 20 · 40.47/10k
Josue (cod. Vat.) 50 · 37.58/10k
Odae 14 · 34.44/10k
De Mundo 18 · 28.39/10k
Habacuc 3 · 27.42/10k
Revelation 26 · 26.28/10k
Sophonias 3 · 25.34/10k
Jude 1 · 22.47/10k
Aggaeus 2 · 21.98/10k
Nahum 2 · 21.67/10k
Menexenus 10 · 20.81/10k

Densest 12 of 117 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

sea, sea, salt lake, sea, maritime affairs, sea, a sea

sea, Il. 2.294, etc.: freq. of the Mediterranean sea, ἥδε ἡ θ. Hdt. 1.1, 185, 4.39, etc.; ἡ παρʼ ἡμῖν θ. Pl. Phd. 113a; ἡ θ. ἡ καθʼ ἡμᾶς Plb. 1.3.9; ἡ ἐντὸς καὶ κ. ἡ. λεγομένη θ. Str. 2.5.18; ἡ ἔσω θ. Arist. Mu. 393b29; ἡ ἔξω θ., of the Ocean, Id. Mete. 350a22; ἡ Ἀτλαντικὴ θ. Id. Mu. 392b22; ἡ μεγάλη θ. Plu. Alex. 73; of a salt lake, Arist. Mete. 351a9; ἐς θάλασσαν τὴν τοῦ Εὐξείνου πόντου Hdt. 2.33; πέλαγος θαλάσσης A.R. 2.608; κατὰ θάλασσαν by sea, opp. πεζῇ, Hdt. 5.63; opp. κατὰ γῆς, Th. 7.28

2 sea-water

sea-water, ἔστω ἐν χαλκῷ ἡ θ. Hp. Coac. 427, cf. Diph.Siph. ap. Ath. 3.121d, Moschio ib. 5.208a, Plb. 16.5.4, Dsc. 2.83.

3 well of salt water

well of salt water, said to be produced by a stroke of Poseidonʼs trident, in the Acropolis at Athens, Hdt. 8.55; θ. Ἐρεχθηΐς Apollod. 3.14.1.

4 channel

channel, LXX 3 Ki. 18.32.

5 laver

χαλκῆ θ. laver, ib. 2 Ki. 8.8.

6 theatre

θ. κοίλη wooden theatre, Paus.Gr. Fr. 208 (= Com.Adesp. 864).—For the Lacon. form σάλασσα, v. θαλασσομέδων.

In the wild

θαλάσσης · thalassēs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 575–576
θάλασσα · thalassa Aeschylus, Agamemnon 650–652
θάλασσα · thalassa Aeschylus, Agamemnon 958
θάλασσαν · thalassan Aeschylus, Eumenides 240–242
θαλάσσας · thalassas Aeschylus, Persians 73–80
θαλάσσας · thalassas Aeschylus, Persians 87–90

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θάλασσα (scan p. 577; entry #2511).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θάλασσα (scan p. 434; entry #3063).

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